I hate Jazz.

My knowledge of music structure is rudimentary, I'm very plebian on this even though I took a couple of uni music classes. I'm one of those people who "know what I like", though what I like changes. I can be tied to music in emotional response, am less sharp re intellectual thrill. A lot of scientist friends are Bach mad, for example, which I observe is different from my apprehension. I can do sudden switches. I despised opera until one day I enjoyed it, though I'd still have to suicide if forced to hear much Wagner. I'm a person that'll admit I heard Coltrane and wanted to slink out of the venue to achieve surcease, and didn't because I liked my date and wanted to at least try to like it. I don't feel that way about Coltrane and slinking or striding away, all this time later. I can overdose on someone, the guitarist Wes Montgomery coming to mind. Had probably five albums and tossed them - one day I simply could not stand his sound.

I suppose that is a great change with music distribution now.. people can listen and react with less investment.

Yeah, like I said, this particular version is all over the place. The more typical interpretations are very straightforward and I prefer them. It's probably the most covered Jazz standard of all time, so there are a lot of different interpretations. I like two in particular, one of Monk doing the piano solo (and he doesn't improvise much) and another is the Blackhawk one I already spoke of.

Edit: I finally found a decent interpretation online, here is a Monk piano solo that I think does the piece justice, the one at the Blackhawk is better still (with his quartet).



I used to feel the same way as you do about Jazz, and I suspect you need to seek out the more melodic stuff. Smooth Jazz, Jazz Samba and the like, and avoid the more frenetic stuff for now.

Check out Stan Getz and his work with João Gilberto, Charlie Byrd and others. It's melodic stuff that was more palatable to me in my initial Jazz exploration. Hell I didn't like Miles Davis till fairly recently as I tend to like very melodic music and initially didn't "get" some of the more frenetic jazz, if you are the same you might want to start where I did.

I hate jazz, too, darlin' . . . bor-ring . . .

Here's a list re latin jazz with a bunch of jazz samba on it (I've been listening to some in the last hour).

http://digitaldreamdoor.nutsie.com/pages/best_jazz/best_jazz-latin.html

Explain the reasons why I like jazz?

a) It's roots are in the blues

b) In the process of singing and playing it my musical abilities are challenged

c) When everything is just right, improvisation can set you free

I'd much rather play music than listen to it, so my views are based on playing for people for $

I am just as happy playing country, metal, jazz, blues, surf, reggae, pop, rock etc as I am jazz

Laurindo Almeida doing Jobim's One Note Samba (linked on a2k earlier by Robert) -


It's on the Collaboration Album with the Modern Jazz Quartet.

It accelerates after a bit.

Hi again your majesty

I think that the way you talk, enjoy and intellectualise about music gives some clues about why you don't like jazz. Much jazz prides itself on not having a direction, it's a bit of merry go round that you get on and get off as suits you.

I studied scriptwriting - I'm a **** to watch television drama with - I can pick who did it within the first quarter of an hour, usually, such is the craft of writing within the constraints of that medium. I think your expertise has killed your aural 'taste buds' where jazz is concerned.

There is no cure!

I was married to a playwright/screenwriter and myself have read zillions of crime procedurals. My pleasure now is in the thrown off comments about real life, trenchant or piquant observations, good detail - not the storyline or plotting. This may have an analogy to music - but I don't know, in music I'm busy still at the 'I know what I like' level (a mongo santamaria vid I heard this evening).

I just like some music and don't like other that much.

I don't like all periods of jazz, only the earlier times ... and the one or other piece of newer jazz.


But I've got about 600 jazz cd's, ainly Dixieland, Swing ...

same here. me and my friend came to the conclusiont he majority of it doesnt have any.. i forget the word.

lemme think....


structure. most of it anyway there is very good peices ive ehard but i dont listen to it by any extent.

miles davis, love him. only guy ive heard so far i like.

P.Q. , there are many, many genres of jazz. I don't care for bebop nor scat vocalizing, but I love the west coast cool sound.

Setanta, you don't like jazz? I'm telling the girl.

One of my favorite jazz vocalists

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSfduB-0lss

Speaking of vocal jazz, this one's hard not to like...


Billie Holiday - Stormy Weather

Ah, dear Lady Day. Love her Craven/Robert. She had a right to sing the blues.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avUXnAMpFoo&feature=related

That's soothing to me...love it.

Hearing this man live is almost a religious experience.

John Boutte - Why
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cf6J8M6FEc

S'funny Walter - dixieland annoys the bejeezus out of me, as does the English revival of same (Kenny Ball, Barber - even Acker Bilk), I like quite a bit of 'Cool' jazz, Oscar Peterson, Wes Montgomery, Miles Davis pre-1965, some Django some of the vocal jazz (but scat singing grates). I'm iffy about the prog jazz/rock stuff (Return To Forever, Mahavishnu et al). Where does Keith Jarret sit in all this?

Free jazz might well be what really annoys PQ and I can see why. I think I mentioned some stuff from a review of 'Coltrane: the story of a sound', I think this an interesting excerpt:


I found it interesting that Jazz might be a dead end genre. I wish I understood music better.

I hate music in general.

I hate generals in music.

What about Sgt Pepper....hmmm?

NCOs are fine, its those snotty elitists that get up my nose!

Captain's Jack and Fantastic : Bad


Sergeant Rock, Corporal Clegg, and Private Investigations : Good.